Tackling Violent Crime Programme

Salford is participating in the national Tackling Violent Crime Programme.

Violent crime includes a range of offences, from assaults resulting in no physical harm to serious offences of rape and murder.

Violent crime has fallen by 14% in the North West since 2003/04 and the Tackling Violent Crime Programme seeks to reduce that further to minimise the harm it causes to individuals and to society.

In Salford we are running a number of projects under the programme:

• Trading Standards and the police are targeting licensed premises that are selling alcohol to underage young people
• Trading Standards are investigating web based sales of alcohol, knives and reproduction firearms to young people
• The police are running Domestic Violence Enforcement Campaigns at weekends and over the Christmas period to deal effectively with incidents of domestic abuse
• Safety messages will be rolled out to remind young people of the consequence of drug and alcohol misuse.

This page was last updated on 3 October 2009